We Care Connect

We are a community not-for-profit program helping vulnerable children on the Central Coast. We receive donated children's care & safety items and equipment, and give them, free-of-cost, to families in need as part of a package of professional care

We are a community not-for-profit program helping vulnerable mothers and children on the NSW Central Coast. We receive donated new and pre-loved mother and child care & safety items, and give them, free-of-cost, to families in need as part of a package of support provided by community and welfare case workers

We work with many organisation such as Central Coast Primary Care, Uniting Care, Benevolent Society, Wesley Mission, Vinnies, Pacific Link plus many more.

Donations are precious and valued; they are used to meet a real need in our community. We rely heavily on the generosity of our community to donate items so we can distribute these on a request-basis to community workers to ensure that donations are part of an overall package of professional support. For this reason, we do not work directly with individual families.

We arrange specific donations days throughout the year which we advertise through our Facebook page.

We ask that all items are clean, freshly laundered and of good quality. Items can be new or pre-loved; items we would be happy for our children to receive.

Unfortunately there are a number of items that we are unable to accept because of safety issues, handling and storage constraints, and regulations.

We welcome:

1. Children’s clothes of all sizes
2. Maternity items eg. Breast pumps, breast pads, sanitary items
3. Baby bottles / sterilizers
5. Strollers, prams
6. Cots, portable cots, bassinets
7. Nappies, wipes
9. Bedding for bassinets, blankets
10. Car seats, boosters, baby capsules (less than 8 yrs old)
11. High chairs
12. Toiletries, hair, skin and oral care
13. Change tables
14. Safety gates
15. Baby baths

Unfortunately, we CANNOT accept:

1. Toys
2. Items that do not meet current Australian standards
3. Alphabet foam mats
4. Baby-swings, walkers and ride-ons
5. Bath seats or stands
6. Bed rails
7. Bikes, scooters and helmets
8. Furniture
9. Incomplete items
10. Jolly jumpers and bumbo seats
11. Nappy wrapper bins and cartridges
12. Nursery décor and cot bumpers
13. Single bed mattresses
14. Opened hygiene products
15. Plastic playpens
16. Tents and cubbies